Scientific publishers come up with a scheme to disseminate publicly funded research in response to a directive from President Obama’s top science advisor.
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Publishers need to be proactive about detecting and deterring copied text.
Measuring consciousness; unethical data splitting; the deliciousness of beer; autism mutations linked to cannabinoid signaling; arming animals against electron microscopes
Scientists should submit their work to open-access repositories to support research in parts of the world that don’t have access to the vast libraries of pay-wall-constrained literature.
Female scholars are gaining ground in publishing, but cluster in sub-disciplines and tend not to be listed as first or last authors.
In the latest effort to boost publication records, researchers are writing positive peer reviews for their work under other scientists’ names.
As a new age in scholarly publishing dawns, improved standards for openness in communicating scientific information promise to eliminate biases and publication delays.
Grading journals on how well they share information with readers will help deliver accountability to an industry that often lacks it.
Overzealous open-access advocates are creating an exploitative environment, threatening the credibility of scholarly publishing.
Starting in April 2013, research supported by the United Kingdom government must be made freely available within 6 months of publication.
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